>
> I found this review article, during a training session on how to use the
> literature data base Dialog. I had read of this argument for a young earth
> in the 1974 edition of "Scientific Creationism" and I wanted to check the
> literature myself. I was really surprised to find this review article.
> Because of this experience, I began to be quite skeptical of the level of
> scholarship within the creationist movement. If one of my students made
> this type of mistake in an undergraduate paper, I would probably suggest
> that they recheck their sources then re-write that section. However, when
> I see that type of error in a book written by "an outstanding team of
> creationist scientists, educators, and Bible scholars" [taken from the
> back cover of the book], I wonder about their scholarly abilities. When
> I see and hear the argument continuing to be used, my response is something
> like "They are probably nice people and are kind to animals, but they
> really don't belong in the discussion. Truth isn't important to them."
> Intellectual dishonesty isn't any better than financial dishonesty.
>
> Jim Behnke, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY 40390 jimbeh@ms.uky.edu
Dear Jim,
I appreciate and relate to your evaluation of YEC. I had a similar
experience at the beginning of a Masters degree in Old Testament (Gen
1-11). I was a YEC then and when I compared Henry Morris' "The Genesis
Record" (1984) with the standard works on the first chapters of the Bible
I was shocked. It is not even good undergraduate work. But then Dr.
Morris is, after all, a hydraulic engineer, not an OT scholar. I'll let
him figure out the plumbing in my house, not the exegesis of God's Word.
Blessings,
Denis
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